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Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. ↗

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#humor #science #truth #humor

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. ↗

— Tim Minchin

#humor #pseudoscience #quackery #scepticism #humor

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem. ↗

— Michael Kurland

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As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#imagination #magic #science #technology #imagination

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other. ↗

— Ken Norris

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Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons. ↗

— Ryan North

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When the mind is free, magic happens. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#humor #law-of-attraction #new-adult #new-thought #paranormal

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#humor #nerdiness #ray-bradbury #science-fiction #humor

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else. ↗

— V.S. Ramachandran

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